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>instead rule like romans who transfer money and resources to critical/ poorer land to improve them.
thats because of their vastness
Russian automotive industry still lives in this post WW era which necessitates that every car has to have at least some offroad capability and that's because a lot of roads are either in terrible shape or nonexistant and thats due to their vastness. Why spend billions of petromonies on road infrastructure building and maintaining it? Build some small cities around mines or oil extraction and ship everything to Moscow or Petersburg by rail where factories are congregated, fuck roads.
This megacity mindset that keeps siphoning resources and offers fuckall in return is one of reasons why people were asshurt during Polish Peoples Republic.